[datatable-help] Using data.table within another package/scoping

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi Damian,


On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Damian Betebenner
<dbetebenner at nciea.org> wrote:
[snip]
> I have been trying to integrate data.table into a package I produce and keep
> having problems with an “object not found” issue.
>
> When I source the function, it works, but when it is put into a package it
> doesn’t work.
[snip]

Two things:

(1) Install version 1.5.1 from R-forge:

R> install.packages('data.table', repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")

(2a) List "data.table" in your DESCRIPTION::Imports filed
(2b) add "imports(data.table)" in your NAMESPACE file

Does that work?
-steve

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